Service Marketing

Topic is British Airways The aim of this assessment is to encourage you to examine a sector in the service industry and analyse the service marketing issues affecting one of the organisations in that sector. You may have already identified sectors and companies of interest through your service diary The sectors from which you should choose are: - Education - Financial Services - Leisure - Not for profit/charity - Professional Services - Retail - Telecomms - Travel Project Tasks If your selected service industry is a broad one, you may need to narrow it by defining one competitive sector or discrete market. The sector you select for study should be UK-based, and have a defined or definable competitive structure. For example, if you choose 'retail' as your industry you might select 'sporting goods' as your competitive sector; if you choose 'charities' as your industry you might select 'children's charities' as your competitive sector. The elements that form this assignment are 1 A definition your chosen sector by size and competitive structure. If applicable, identify the major strategic grouping(s) and the one you have selected for study. Assess the current marketing environment of this group. 2 Your assessment of the opportunities and threats facing the sector/grouping using original and coherent analysis based on properly referenced sources. 3 A summary of the commonalities and differences between the current service marketing strategies of your chosen sector's ‘major players'. 4 Select ONE of the existing players (major or otherwise) and a identify that organisation's key strategic service marketing issues for the next 5 years, drawing on your foregoing analysis. b briefly demonstrate the relationship between any one of these issues and some relevant theoretical principles of services marketing, taken from any appropriate and referenced source. READING LIST Core text: Kasper, H., van Helsdingen, P. and Gabbott, M. (2006) Services Marketing Management: A strategic perspective, 2nd Edition, John Wiley and Sons Recommended texts: GrÖnroos, C.(2007), Service Management and Marketing, 3 rd Edition, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Lovelock, C. and Wirtz, J. (2010) Services Marketing: People, Technology, Strategy, 7th Edition, Pearson. Lovelock,C., Wirtz, J., and Chew, P. (2009) Essentials of Services Marketing, Prentice Hall. Palmer, A. (2008) Principles of Services Marketing,5th Edition, McGraw-Hill. Zeithaml, V., Bitner, M.J. and Gremler (2009) Services Marketing: Integrating customer focus across the firm, 5th Edition, McGraw-Hill. Background Reading Gabbott, M. and Hogg, M. (eds), (1997) Services Marketing Management – A Reader, Dryden Press. Lovelock, C., Vandermerwe, S. and Lewis, B. (1999) Services Marketing: A European perspective, Prentice Hall. McDonald, M. and Payne, A. 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